Douglas John Gurr (born July 1964) is a British businessman, and the Director of the Natural History Museum, London.

Gurr was born in Leeds, England, in July 1964, to parents from New Zealand, and his father was head of the English department at the University of Nairobi.

[1] Gurr began his career as an academic teaching maths and computing at the Aarhus University in Denmark,[6] before working for the United Kingdom's Civil Service.

[5][8] Gurr has been the chairman of the British Heart Foundation since 2015, and a non-executive director of the UK government's Department for Work and Pensions.

[citation needed] In July 2018, Gurr received widespread attention for his claim that a no-deal Brexit could lead to civil unrest "within two weeks".